Now Blears goes...

[Awesome Wells]

Proper lol. They're really not going to have anyone left at this rate.

*edit: jinx!*

I'll have a go if you like.

 

[untethered]

I rather suspect she'll be back though.

The Conservatives aren't that short of talent.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Brilliant. I love this. Who else can we push over the edge? Please let it be that smarmy slimeball Douglas Alexander.

Purnell! For the love of the green man let it be him!

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The Conservatives aren't that short of talent.

You, however, are.

 

[London_Calling]

I half expect one of those Hitler-in-the-bunker vids to show up now.

 

[DotCommunist]

Purnell! For the love of the green man let it be him!

*fingers and toes crossed*

 

[danny la rouge]

Purnell! For the love of the green man let it be him!

There's no shortage of choice. Let's have both! Then more tomorrow; I, for one, am a long way from losing my appetite.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The Conservatives aren't that short of talent.

Why then is Cameron encouraging candidates to apply who are not even in the Conservative Party?

If there was a Britains Got Political Talent television show it would only run for about 3 weeks maximum.

 

[belboid]

If there was a Britains Got Political Talent television show it would only run for about 3 weeks maximum.

they did one of them last year didnt they? Ended up with some far right loon getting the 'nomination'

 

[Hocus Eye.]

they did one of them last year didnt they? Ended up with some far right loon getting the 'nomination'

Perhaps you are thinking of the London Mayoral Election.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

 

[Belushi]

Why then is Cameron encouraging candidates to apply who are not even in the Conservative Party?

I suspect its not because he doesnt think he has enough talent, but because the talent he does have is overrepresentative of a particular demographic.

 

[untethered]

You, however, are.

Uncalled for.

 

[danny la rouge]

I suspect its not because he doesnt think he has enough talent, but because the talent he does have is overrepresentative of a particular demographic.

I think it's a PR ploy, to say "Harken! We are open, inviting, and modern, and wish to have Fresh Blood. Isn't that refreshing?"

 

[DotCommunist]

Camerons self-righteous attitude over this whole affair has been sickening. The eton-attending tory twat.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

sickening

Can anybody read this word without thinking of Dave Spart?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I think it's a PR ploy, to say "Harken! We are open, inviting, and modern, and wish to have Fresh Blood. Isn't that refreshing?"

Yes I could just imagine Cameron playing the part of Dracula in a Hammer Horror film.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I suspect its not because he doesnt think he has enough talent, but because the talent he does have is overrepresentative of a particular demographic.

 

[Belushi]

You werent a member when you were at Oxford were you Donna?

 

[untethered]

I suspect its not because he doesnt think he has enough talent, but because the talent he does have is overrepresentative of a particular demographic.

I think it's a PR ploy, to say "Harken! We are open, inviting, and modern, and wish to have Fresh Blood. Isn't that refreshing?"

It's actually yet another way for Mr Cameron to bypass constituency associations and get himself a loyal coterie of MPs that owe their jobs to him personally.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You werent a member when you were at Oxford were you Donna?

Probably the only time in my life I've been considered proletarian, sir.

I've been up the Bullingdon Arms*, if that's any good.


[* though it was shit]

 

[danny la rouge]

It's actually yet another way for Mr Cameron to bypass constituency associations and get himself a loyal coterie of MPs that owe their jobs to him personally.

You cynical thing, you. You'll have to vote UKIP now.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You cynical thing, you. You'll have to vote UKIP now.

Just sign your name in the box....

 

[Divisive Cotton]

pms questions has just started - I think I'll watch it for a while but I won't be able to stand if for long

 

[fogbat]

I think it's a PR ploy, to say "Harken! We are open, inviting, and modern, and wish to have Fresh Blood. Isn't that refreshing?"

"Someone mentioned fresh blood?"

 

[ViolentPanda]

who will fall upon the sword next eh?

into comfortable lords positions, commercial activities, sinecures and comfortable retirements.

they should be getting nicked

I suspect some of them are also hoping to slide onto the backbenches, then do a year or so of penance before moving up the greasy pole (whether in govt or opposition) again.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Can anybody read this word without thinking of Dave Spart?

People who've never read "Private Eye"?

 

[London_Calling]

Whoa Nelly! Alan Johnson is prepared to be the catalyst if there's "enough support" on the backbench's, according to a BBC reporter reporting what backbenchers having been saying this morning.

Johnson would be prepared to "do the right thing" if the support was there.


If it's not fully out in the open yet, Johnson's flies are undone.

 

[elbows]

Some journalists are getting a bit excited:

BBC political editor Nick Robinson tells BBC Two's Daily Politics Mr Brown's situation is not like Margaret Thatcher's in 1990. But we "simply do not know" whether he has the cabinet's backing, he adds. He says Hazel Blears has effectively triggered a Labour leadership election.

 

[danny la rouge]

Some journalists are getting a bit excited:

Mind you, Robinson's a scumbag lying scab, so I'll wait to see who else gets excited.